1. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declares that the latest Israeli massacres in Gaza, where tens of thousands have already been killed, are “only the beginning”
2. Mahmoud
Khalil, a legal resident of the United States who was kidnapped and
imprisoned by the Trump administration for his role in anti-genocide
protests at Columbia University, releases a powerful statement from
inside an immigration detention facility in Louisiana
Khalil: I have always believed that my duty is not only to liberate myself from
the oppressor, but also to liberate my oppressors from their hatred and
fear
3. Gary Tyler, who entered Louisiana’s
notorious Angola State Penitentiary as its youngest death row inmate in 1975, speaks about the “Art as Resilience” to an audience in Ann Arbor, Michigan
4. Louisiana ends its 15-year pause of executions after a 5-4 ruling by the US Supreme that declines to halt the nitrogen gas execution of an inmate, Jessie Hoffman Jr.
5. The nationalist spectacle of Germany's IG Metall union's “day of action” is a thinly veiled endorsement of Berlin’s drive to rearmament and war
6. A socialist and teacher in Brazil, Tomas Castanheira, describes how the government of Brazil wants to emulate the US Trump administration's plans to privatize public education
7. A significant ruling by the Australian High Court that purports to compensate indigenous clans for seized mining rights may not be as fair in practice as it sounds
8. Argentinian police forces corral and brutally attack thousands of protesting pensioners, workers, and soccer fans in Buenos Aires
9. In the past 25 years the price of gold has increased 10-fold, with its rise passing key marker points in periods of financial turbulence
10. The pseudo-leftist government of Spain plans to raise military spending to a level that exceeds even that of General Francisco Franco’s 1939-1975 fascist dictatorship
11. More details from the recent online discussion organized by the Educators Rank-and-File Committee and International Youth and Students for Social Equality about the US Trump administration's attacks on public education and democratic rights
12. Mickey 17, directed filmmaker Bong Joon-ho, is a science fiction black comedy based on an Edward Ashton novel that loses its way, somewhat
12. In line with International Monetary Fund dictates, the government of Sri Lanka plans to establish a state holding company to accelerate the privatization of state-owned enterprises
13. New information about the cause of the recent deadly Club Pulse nightclub fire in Kočani, North Macedonia points to its operator's criminal neglect of all safety precautions
13. The revelation that US National Institutes of Health officials are instructing scientists to scrub references to mRNA technology from their grant applications is an unmistakable sign of the Trump administration’s war on science
15. Prosecutors refuse to press charges against a Missouri, US police officer who killed a mother and her infant child last year while responding to a domestic violence call. Since the killing of George Floyd in 2020, the number of killings by police officers has not declined—in fact, it has increased significantly
14. A protester in Cologne, Germany speaks out against the new Syrian regime's attacks on Alawites: “It’s not over yet. They stole the mobile phones of those killed. And
they call every number and say: “We know your name, we know where you
live, and you’re next”
15. The Labour government’s work and pensions minister Liz Kendall lays out a savage program of attacks on welfare recipients, aimed at saving the UK more than £5 billion
16. Underhanded methods employed by union officials to impose reforms, which are actually dress rehearsals for funding cuts and mass job destruction, are made plain at Cumbernauld, one of Royal Mail's delivery sites
in Scotland
17. The Chicago Educators Rank-and-File Committee calls for the broadest mobilization of the working class to oppose the Trump administration’s plans to destroy public education
18. Free Ukrainian socialist and anti-war activist, Bogdan Syrotiuk!
19. San Francisco, California city legal resources for immigrants needing help